Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Tremblay.
I'm going to start with some of the words of the Auditor General, which I actually think are not very relevant in the private sector, but when it comes to government, I have found this to be more and more true.
In a statement accompanying the spring reports, the Auditor General highlighted that the measure of success has become the amount of money spent, rather than improved outcomes for indigenous people. We can apply that across the government as a whole, quite frankly. It's not one government; it's many successive governments that have done this more and more.
I am going to ask you the question, what is your job in coming to committee today? I get the feeling that your job as you come here today is to say to the committee, “Don't worry, we're working on it, and we're going to get through this. I'm going to do everything I can to make sure the results are better next time we come back.”
I would hope that your job coming to committee today would actually be to say, “There are some really hard issues to work through. We don't have some of the answers, but we're going to collect the data so we can get the information to come up with the answers and solutions down the road, because it's still not being done.”
As I look through this report, I have found the entire education piece to be very frustrating. I'll speak to you offline about this, but I have my own experiences with trying to help some local reserves with education items.
I have a question for the Auditor General on this. If we look at the funding for education, are you able to audit each and every dollar that's spent in comparison to the results that are coming out? I know you're being fed results. Are we able to go through every dollar after we transfer it from the Government of Canada?